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To simulate the taste: after doing something sweaty and strenuous, take off your pants and underwear, place you head between your legs and take a huge whiff and taste of your taint. That is what Limburger tastes and smells like.
You are so very welcome.
I see it in practically every supermarket I’ve shopped at. I notice it because I tried it once, and it tasted exactly like it smelled - friggin’ awful. When I see it I think “how is something that tastes just like how shit smells so popular that it’s in nearly every supermarket I’ve shopped at? Is filming ‘Two Girls One Cheese’ a popular nation-wide pastime?”
Agreed. It smells so bad and so biological, I’m almost embarrassed to be around it. I think, “hey, is that me? That’s embarrassing. No? Is it that guy? I feel bad for him. Oh, wait, it’s the cheese.”
It smells nothing like moldy bleu cheese. Limburger really has a unwashed naughty bits smell to it. Other than the stench, it’s pretty bland (that is, not especially salty or sweet or anything like that). From what I remember, it’s like a mild soft cheese with a disgusting and embarrassing smell. The kind of food you’d think is only eaten on a dare.
I’m with you and I generally LOVE stinky cheeses. Not that one. The only cheese more hurk-worthy is probably that maggot-cheese they eat somewhere in southern Italy (IIRC).
That’s what I remember of it, too. Like taking something like Laughing Cow, wrapping it in sweaty gym socks, and leaving it in a warm place for a month to “mature.” There’s a similar cheese in Hungary called Palpusztai cheese. Interesting, looking at that article, it seems the cheeses are indeed related, and the bacterium responsible for the pungent smell and flavor is one found on human skin and partially responsible for BO. So the sweaty socks and body odor comparisons are not imagination.
One of the reasons limburger is still sold in some places isn’t because so many people like to eat it. It makes excellent catfish bait because they feed by smell. It is bought with the hope of catching something much better with it.
Silver Creek Brewpub in Cedarburg. They had limburger available as of a couple years ago, I’d call and check before making a special trip!
I guess I had this romantic notion that Limburger was available in every small town watering hole in Wisconsin. 
My wife had the Braunschweiger sandwich which, I have to admit, was the better choice (I do love my liver sausages.) Although I suspect Limburger and Braunschweiger together would work really well.
And, apropos to nothing, the weirdest thing I’ve ever had at a Wisconsin tavern was pickled turkey gizzards. I had no idea turkey gizzards were that big.
Their website says they no longer serve any food there. :eek:
Must be some backlash to the limburger. 
The Kroger here sells it and I’d be surprised if your local Kroger doesn’t. We live out in the middle of nowhere where “cheese” is spelled “K-R-A-F-T”.
In my opinion, it is as bad as the cliche. As an anecdote: I came home from work one day after my wife finished eating it some time before. Upon coming into the door (before even closing it) I was nearly floored and felt compelled to tell her that she should wash her socks more often.
I was never so happy to see a cheese go away. Though now I almost want to get some more after seeing the post about using it as fishing bait. That never crossed my mind.
Braunschweiger, limburger, and onion on dark rye is exactly the sandwich I order at Baumgartner’s.
And yes, one’s breath is exactly as horrid as you might expect afterward.
QTM I might still give them a call, their “menu” was never anything but various cheeses and breads, they might still have those.
It’ll be fine. My wife is used to it. Next time I’m through town, limburger & braunchweiger is going to be on my to-eat list. It’s not explicitly listed as a combo on their menu, so I didn’t want to risk embarrassing myself ordering such a combination. Good to know that it’s not considered unusual.
When I stopped in at the Mars Cheese Castle on I-94 a few months back, I’m pretty sure I saw limburger for sale there. Note that I wasn’t actually shopping for the stuff, but it stood out in my mind that I actually did see it there (it being among the most infamous of cheeses).
Probably pivní sýr, literally “beer cheese.” An even stinkier one is Olomoucké tvarůžky, aka Olomoucké syrečky. Kind of has a vomity thing going.
My mother in law liked Limburger, she kept a jar of it in her freezer and doled it out to herself in tiny, tiny bits. I do not want to even think about why.
Green County, where Limburger is made, isn’t really great Wisconsin fishing country like further north. I suppose someone has used it for bait, but what you really want to do is punch some holes in a can of dog food, drop it down the hole (we are discussing ice fishing, right?) and set your line above the plume it releases.
Thanks, Maastrict!
I have another cheese question for you…I read once about a rather obscure cheese…made on the island of Texel. It was a sheep’s milk cheese…and it was cured by…get this…packing it in composted sheep manure (gack)!
Ever heard of this stuff?
My father used to eat some stuff that grossed us out. Sülze, Buttermilk, and I remember Liederkranz. From an interesting article google brought up from 2010, “Plug your nose: Gone-but-not-forgotten stinky Liederkranz cheese is making a comeback in Wisconsin. The slightly less pungent cousin of Limburger was a beloved staple of German immigrants in Wisconsin for nearly a century.”
OK, so today that “next time” finally came. We were back through Monroe and stopped by Baumgartners. Got the limburger & braunschweiger with onions and mustard on rye. I swear, maybe I’m losing it, but the limburger didn’t taste anywhere near as funky as I remembered it. Or maybe I’m slowly becoming Wisconsonian. We were up through New Glarus earlier in the day, and stopped by the Octoberfest celebration where they were selling “limburger sliders” which were just little square White Castle-sized sandwiches of rye with Amish County Limburger cheese spread, and I had thought the same thing, but just wrote it down to it being made with the spread or the cheese? I bought a little tub of spread to take home as well, and I can’t quite smell that body odor funk I remember it having.
Am I just getting used to the stuff, or could it possibly be milder?
By the way, I did love that limburger & braunschweiger sandwich and am already craving it again.
ETA: Oh, and that Minhas Brewery tour might have been the most generous brewery tour I’ve ever been on. $10 was basically all you can drink, and you get a glass and four bottles of beer and one of soda to take home with you. How the hell did I not notice Minhas (once Huber) was there before?